A Few Words about NDN on CMR
The California Majority Report graciously asked me to be one of the contributors to their frequently updated blog on California politics. On my most recent post for them, I wrote (again) about NDN:
Out in DC, NDN has done a lot of good by emphasizing the importance of the Latino vote in American politics. It has also done a lot of bad by insisting with chronically overheated rhetoric that the way to deliver that vote is simply by speaking Spanish. They point to New Jersey as the case study proving that their “pioneering” all-Spanish/all-the-time model is a winning strategy. The “indisputable” evidence? The fact that then-U.S. Senator Jon Corzine got 77 percent of the Latino vote in the 2005 gubernatorial election. John Kerry, after all, only got 56 percent in the prior year’s presidential. Clouding the picture, however, is the fact that state senator Jim McGreevey got 72 percent in his 2001 gubernatorial win. Corzine ended up spending $23 million more in his election than McGreevey did in his, so it seems to me money mattered more than the model.
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